Heavy Gear Blitz! Tabletop Wargaming - Living Rulebook

The Living Rulebook contains all the rules for combat during the second invasion of Terra Nova by the Colonial Expeditionary Forces of Earth. Terra Nova is one of the last remaining free planets, a world split by ideologies, politics, and the fight for resources, and is now the front line of a war for control of all known space.

Earth abandoned Terra Nova when the Human Concordat, the united government of Earth, collapsed almost five hundred years ago. Now Earths Military Forces have again returned to reclaim their wayward colony.

You are the Commander of a force tasked with holding back the invaders and their mighty armies of clone GREL infantry, hovertanks, the frightening FLAIL Battle Frames combat vehicles. Fighting with Earth are their allies from the Caprician Corporations, with their insectoid Combat Mounts, the high tech Utopians with their swarms of N-KIDU drones, and the feudal Edenite Golems.

The forces you command include tanks, infantry, aircraft, and the powerful multi-role combat walkers called Gears, and their larger cousins, the Striders. Units of Gears and their skilled pilots are the highly mobile backbone of your forces, each fifteen foot tall Gear bristling with an arsenal of lethal high tech weaponry.

The Living Rulebook is the current new edition for the Heavy Gears Blitz Tabletop Wargame, as of July 2016. The rules and army constuction have been refined and streamlined from the previously available Heavy Gear Blitz Living Rulebook Beta released in fall 2015. This Living Rulebook will be a perpetual online resource, and will be updated regularly with new models, forces, and scenarios for you to play.

Get your Gear on and join the fight!

The Heavy Gear Blitz - Tabletop Wargaming - Living Rulebook includes: - Introduction to the Heavy Gear Universe, and backgrounds on all forces.- A fast paced and simple, though detailed, combat system with single roll game event resolution for engaging game play.- Rules for scenario generation, support elements, aircraft, weather events, and advanced deployments such as air drop and stealth deployments.- Complete Force construction rules for all the Terra Novan Forces, Earth Forces, and other allied Colony Forces.- Complete model and variants lists for the entire Dream Pod 9 range of Heavy Gear models.- General, Veteran, and Duelist upgrade lists to customize your Forces.

Technically, none of the other books are compatible. The LRB is a brand new edition of the rules and literally NONE of the other books are directly compatible with it. Lion's Wrath and Blood Debt were the final books made of the previous version of Heavy Gear Blitz.

That said, the older books are still an excellent source of background material.

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